Paradise on the Mississippi Corn Trade and Hardship
The Mississippi river valley pumps out vast corn shipments with 6200 bushels aboard and more arriving at each landing as steamboats haul sacks along the bank. Amid poverty and improvidence, river towns show cotton declines and rising corn value while locals discuss land loss, a jail and gallows, and a color change tale as a colorful frontier scene unfolds along Carruthersville and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Car Island
Ark
Ruile
Southland
New Orleans
Anstant
Montanous
Sazy
Mississippi Valley
Memphis
Orleans
Comanda
Mexico
Atagosa
Death of Lieutenant Wm Carmi Babcock Shocks Massillon
Lieutenant Wm Carmi Babcock United States Navy died in New York after a cold contracted in Washington. He was the youngest Annapolis 1871 graduate and served with distinction. His mother Mrs Amanda Rhodes of San Francisco, sister of Judge Anson Pease, will arrive with his brother to arrange military funeral details at the Navy Yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmi Babcock
United States Navy
New York
Massillon
Babcock
A. P.L. Pease
Amanda Rhodes
Cleveland
San Francisco
Anson Pease
Navy Yard
Navy
Kansas
Annapolis
John P. Babcock
Fremont
Washington
University Club
Jacoby Estate Heirship Case Attracts Attention In Canton
Cora Stevenson filed an answer and inter-pleader in the McCaughey versus Stevenson case over the Jacoby estate of Massillon. She seeks her husband's one eighth share and, if blocked, her dower as widow of Braynard Richards. The petition is noted as highly peculiar and has drawn local attention. Wright's Celery Capsules advertise treatment for kidney, liver, stomach issues, rheumatism, constipation, and headaches with a money-back guarantee. Subscriptions urged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
Cora Stevenson
R. W. McCaughey
Jacoby
Massillon
Braynard Richards
Richards
Wright
T. Baltaly
Lanton
Circuit Court
F. E. Hartzell
City of
Allance
Common Pleas Court
Hartzell
Alliance
Everhard
Court House
H. H. Everhard
Mary Ann Madison
Joseph Mandru
Frank Schuhreimer
Floyd A. Young
Myrtle House
Myers
John F. Leonhart
Mary Leiter
Navarre
Isaac E. Brecker
Emma K. Bergman
Louisville
Health of the City 1895 Communicable Diseases Report
The annual health board report for 1895 notes influenza causing the most deaths, with diphtheria scarlet fever and measles milder in many cases. Typhoid fell 34 percent from 1594, aided by better water use. Births and deaths are tabulated by ward. sewer and garbage disposal urged. public placarding practices critiqued. doctors urged trustworthiness. one officer reports delays with street railway access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Health
J. C. Haring
Fred Hose
T. Clark M Iler
Alth Ofiver
Stark county bonds sold and Massillon suits filed
Bids for Stark county refunding bonds at 5 percent were opened. Season Good & Co. of Cincinnati offered the top premium of 1850, accepted. Diets Dennison & Prior of Cleveland offered 1540. Also noted are suits: John McIntosh sues Fanny L Clay, Taylor Clay and others for two 5000 promissory notes secured by a mortgage. Other cases involve Daniel Hemperly and property disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CanTax
Stark County
L. A Leichot
Commissioner
Season Good & Co
Cincinnati
Diets, Dennison & Prior
Cleveland
McIntosh
W.B. Humberger
F. O. Humberger
Anna McIntosh
R W. McCaughey
W. B. Humberger
Louis Hindererdary
Joseph Reese
Daniel Buckwalter
Clay
Daniel Hemperly
H.C
J. J. Deilhenn
John Jacobs
Godfrey Mausz
Wm. Welker
Educational Matters and The Stark County Institute
Eminent instructors attend the Stark County Teachers Institute in Osnaburg with Miss Margaret Sutherland praising the reading circle in Canton. The program lists talks by J M Sarver, C Given, A Baker, L G Kuhn, and others, plus Boxwell examination questions on orthography grammar geography and U S history. The article also notes a separate dissolution case and other local notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stark County
Teachers’ Institute
Osnaburg
Canton Presbyterian Church
Margaret Sutherland
Ohio
Reading Circle
Canton
Columbus
Bethlehem Township
Navarre High School
J. .M. Sarver
Canton High School
I C. Given
A. ©. Baker
L. G. Kuhn
Cable
Speelman
Nora Garver
Lucy Kohn
Verene Piouts
W. B. Given
Stark County Teachers’ Institute
Dynaburg
J.C. Hartzler
Newark Scheola
E. T. Nelson
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware
C. T. Carson
Nelson
Millersburg
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Djenes
Rascal
Mizzoura
Missouri
Carruthersville
Joanna
Charlie Walton
Puenday
East Greenville
Dick Aston
Mickey Burns
Carrollton
Blythe
Adair
Peter Hollender
Commercial House
WM_ GRASSCOCK
The
Pa Kent
Mansillon
William R. Umbenhour
Edward C Segner
Perry Township
Masters
Findley
Lota
Russell
Josephine Springer
Otto and
N. Springer
Bertha Portner
Joseph Springer
Anna Gabele
Ruth L. Springer
Mr. Jackson
Tve
Lady
South America
France
Coral Islands
Tokio
Hammerfest
Melbourne
Vera Cruz
Aspinwall
Asia
U.S
U. S
James Oglethorpe
William Penn
Lopez
Antietam
Saratoga
Alabama
Eli Whitney
Raleigh
Capt. Smith
Jefferson
Ellery's
East Main Street
Charles Devinger
Wooster
Margaret Shaffer
Devinger
A. D. Jones
Mansfield
Pontius
Ponting
Marchand
Nexti Lawrence
Mk Epitor
Newman
Weill
Massillon Miners’ Convention
Funde
R. A. Pollock
Pollock
North Lawrence
Mossop
A, PenLock
At. N. Taylor
R. N. Taylor
Estella Weiler Taylor
Oklahoma Territory
R N. Taylor
Mr. Taylor
Oklahoma
J. B. McLaughlin
Tertla Creek
Gale
Ephraim Royer
Woodlands
East Geenville
Albert B. Kittinger
Roelof
Spangler & Co.'s
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